The Age of Stupid Page #5

We're not at war at

the moment. It's not a war.

But people actually recognize that

full implications of what's in store for us,

they would be treating it like a war.

If anybody takes Airfield Farm for example,

I mean that was the year it was airbase,

people flew out there and died.

Or of course, which was massive at the time,

the global problem, and we have ourselves out.

A real global problem that needs

that kind of level of commitment.

There are many, many other industries

that need to be looked in to first, before aviation.

it's not questionable

choosing one industry to target,

in ultimate deal, we all contribute

to to to greenhouse gases,

we all contribute to the crisis

that we have today with the planet.

So ultimately, in terms of, you know...

insuring our planet is safe and

healthy is each one's job, task.

Whether you do it in your own

way by using less tissue paper,

using less papers, less trees cut

buying green cars or not flying.

Obviously, if you're not doing it,

and the demand goes down,

the demand goes down, the supply goes down.

Life is about demand and supply

or supply and demand.

Strange. Watching this film fragment.

Like looking through binoculars

observing people of far of beach.

Running around in circle, fixated on

the small area of sand under their feet.

As a tsunami races toward the shore.

Here's Alvin. He's just taken early retirement

after thirty years on the oil industry salary.

And he's planning to spend his later

years outside enjoying nature.

Oh, certainly I'm ecologist, and

an environmentalist.

I really don't have

a problem squaring that...

Working for an oil company

that I feel... has...

done a pretty good job and

in being environmentally friendly.

When I started working in

the oil industries, about the mid 70's,

it was clear path for me,

as a scientist coming up college

And I didn't know the detail of what goes on

in the oil industry, the goods and the bad.

But indeed every industry

has that, goods and bad.

Would I do it again, knowing what I know now,

of course I would do it again,

I mean, you need to work,

you need to do something

The worst example I've had is a lady,

an old lady came up to me,

at the public exhibition.

And gave me a cutting from a newspaper,

with a picture of guy being shot

Local anti-campaign is

one of the key factors,

stopping about 80% of the proposed

wind energy project in Britain.

Had they all been built, 10% of our

Electricity would've been non-polluted.

How the heck are we meant to persuade

people in India and China

that they should develop in a more sustainable

way when we are not prepared to even to accept

you know, the old wind farming landscape.

"So how's it going?", "All right, yes. "

"Not too much trouble?", "Not really,

no, nobody's punched me up. "

Pierce has come back to the Ernie's farm

with a plan to make

the turbine less visible.

Trying to kick start the planning process

that the anti-campaign has now

held up for eighteen months.

Another eighteen months of climate change

Another eighteen months,

where I'm able to do nothing about it.

You must be feeling the same as me.

It just, I mean how long have we got...

Pierce's compromise reduces the number

of turbines from fifteen down to nine.

This is still the equivalent electrical

power to fair eleven thousand homes.

So there's still alot power.

Exactly the opposite is happening,

to the very thing that needs to happen.

These things need to be speeded up,

and actually, they're getting slowed down.

Plenty of politicians are talking about it,

but when it comes down to it,

It's just not happening.

It's Just not happening, folks.

Governments will only go as

far as the population demands.

And that means mass protest

on unprecedented scale.

Direct action like this is essential,

if you were going to turn an issue

around in a short period of time.

We've found that many many times in the past,

from the suffragettes onwards.

The very fact that the crisis is taking place in

our generations is happening right now,

means we are tremendously powerful people.

So this position of despair,

and I can't do anything, there's no point.

It's completely illogically,

it's exactly the opposite

There's no shortage of great matter in

the species, we can do some amazing things.

But I don't think we been very smart

about how we use our resources.

How we quite literally burn up something

as beautiful and useful as all.

We literally burn it up.

That's it, it's gone, it's done.

I think most people were

becoming disenchanted by this point.

We'd stop believing that this was

the golden era of human civilization,

and started questioning

our collective values.

All I can hope is,

an incredible disasters like Katrina,

and the horrible wars comes out and

what not, that are going on around the world

will snap us out of it.

Let's see if it's headed in

the right direction for the good of mankind.

For this disaster, I had a lot of stuff,

I was a classic consumer,

Two years later, I've learned lot about

happiness and the pursuit thereof.

The happiness is not in the latest gadgets,

the latest electric tooth brush, or something like that.

All of that stuff. It's just not the stuff

of life. Not for me anyway.

Climate scientist can estimate how much of

the remaining fossil fuels we can safely burn.

This amount is called the "global cap. "

Under this proposal, the world governments

will make a binding into international agreement

detailing how to distribute the global cap.

The earlier the start takes,

of greater the chance of not

triggering runaway climate change.

The total global emissions for the first year

say 2012, will be set for that current level.

Every year following they'll shrink until

by about 2065, they're almost zero.

Initially, each country would be

allocated an emissions quota,

according to how much

they currently consume.

But this would change over time

America would slash its emissions 90%

from its current over consuming position.

Europe too would decrease

massively, as would China.

But India and Africa would

increase until by about 2025.

Each human being on the planet would

have equal rights to the earth's resources.

Equity is the only option morally,

and also practically as the developing

countries won't sign up for anything less.

But total emissions would

then keep decreasing every year.

Until by 2065 we'll have

waned ourselves off of fossil fuels

and prevented the worst

impacts of climate change.

As to how each country divvies up its share to

the system, there were various options on the table.

The most promising of which

individual carbon rationing.

Mr. W.S Morrison is here to explain.

If in the culture of war, we are short

for a time of this or that article of food.

Rationing, will give every one,

rich and poor alike,

an equal share of all its goods.

Down to the scheme. Everyone in UK would

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